Keep in mind when ConstitutionDAO tried (and failed) to purchase a replica of the U.S. Structure? Nicely, now there’s a undertaking aiming to do a lot the identical with a nuclear bunker.
The creators of doomsday-themed Solana undertaking Meatbags hope to buy a nuclear bunker constructed throughout the Chilly Battle in Rutland, England. To do that, 100,000 Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will probably be supplied on the market at $14 a pop in an try to boost $1.4 million, with NFT holders forming a decentralized autonomous group or DAO collective that can vote on what to do with the property.
The positioning spans 1.4 acres with a nuclear bunker and former reservoir, in keeping with SDL Property Auctions, and was in-built 1960 to behave as a British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Chilly Battle monitoring submit. This was considered one of 1,500 underground monitoring posts constructed throughout the UK, throughout a time of heightened worry of nuclear struggle.
Photograph of the nuclear bunker and reservoir. Picture: SDL Property Auctions.
Planning permission has already been secured for the location by its present house owners to show it right into a luxurious dwelling with two flooring of “cathedral-type ceilings,” a big glass frontage, and views throughout the Leicestershire countryside. Meatbags claims to have an estimate on how a lot these plans will price, and the workforce has factored this into the NFT elevating worth.
The try remembers the well-publicized effort from ConstitutionDAO, which shaped in late 2021 in an try and buy a replica of the U.S. Structure at public sale.
We’re giving Doomsday Preppers world wide an opportunity to order their slice of the Billionaire Bunker Membership—a Chilly Battle artifact and the primary historic web site ever fractionalized into a completely decentralized, community-governed real-world asset on-chain.
— MEATBAGS (@mfmeatbags) April 19, 2025
Regardless of elevating about $47 million to additional such goals, the DAO didn’t win the public sale, dropping out to billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. ConstitutionDAO ultimately refunded its individuals, which Meatbags has additionally pledged to do if it could actually’t safe the aforementioned bunker or an alternate web site inside six months of its bid being rejected.
However different DAO-driven efforts have had extra success fulfilling their goals—resembling LinksDAO, which bought the Spey Bay Golf Membership in Scotland in 2023 and is overhauling the location.
Robert, the pseudonymous co-founder and CEO of Meatbags creator Lifeless Bruv, informed Decrypt that the workforce has scoped out a few alternate options already, a few of that are additionally in the UK—however they’re open to touchdown a web site elsewhere, too.
“We’re assured we’ll be capable of get our arms on a bunker,” he added.
Photograph of proposed refurbishment of property. Picture: SDL Property Auctions.
Billionaire bunker membership
If the Meatbags collective efficiently purchases the property as the results of the upcoming “Purchase the Bunker” marketing campaign, it’s going to enable the newly shaped DAO to vote on what will probably be accomplished with the property.
“I suppose the concept could be to have the ability to have folks come to the property, keep on it. Both I feel it’s going to flip right into a vacationer attraction, or I feel it may additionally go down the route of being an insane property on Airbnb,” Robert informed Decrypt. “In the end, it’ll come right down to what the DAO votes [for].”
Meatbags is a narrative-driven NFT undertaking about doomsday preppers dwelling in a world that’s coming to an finish, referred to as Surviville, which mirrors real-world issues like struggle tensions, world pandemics, and the rise of highly effective AI. As such, the group already has its toe on the planet of doomsday prepping—so there’s an opportunity the DAO may vote to make use of the property as a useful bunker if the worst was to occur.
Except for collaborating within the DAO, Billionaire Bunker Membership holders may even obtain an on-chain land deed verifying that they personal a share of the bunker, and will probably be invited to a gap social gathering.
Robert claims to have reached out to the auctioneers through electronic mail and mentioned they seem open to the NFT undertaking shopping for the property. SDL Property Auctions didn’t reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.
The positioning is at the moment listed for a information worth of over £650,000 (or about $862,000) plus charges. Meatbags goals to boost $1.4 million so it could actually additionally refurbish the place, create wiggle room for negotiating, and pay administration, working, and authorized charges incurred all through the marketing campaign. The DAO will vote on how any remaining funds will probably be used.
Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will go on sale on Monday at 8am ET, with customers capable of buy utilizing Solana Pay or bank card through the Lifeless Bruv web site.
ConstitutionDAO fell in need of its personal purpose, and making an attempt to promote 100,000 NFTs in 2025 at any worth would possibly seem to be a Herculean process. Even so, the workforce is assured in its possibilities to drag this off.
“I’m about as optimistic as you may be when betting on crypto and the apocalypse on the similar time,” pseudonymous co-founder and inventive director Psychrome informed Decrypt.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
